Process of reducing fats and mixtures containing the same to powder form.



FREDERICK ATKINSON, F INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

PROCESS OF REDUCING FATS AND MIXTURES CONTAINING FORM.

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To alt whom it mag concern: 2 -Be 1t known that I, FREDERICK C.- ATK1N son, a citizen of .the United States, residing vat Indianapolis, Marion county, and- State,

of Indiana, have invented I and discovered v certain'newfianduseful Improvements in. 'gProcesses of Reducing Fats and- Mixtures Containing the Same to Powder Form, of.

' which the following is'a specification.

My' invention relates to processes of reducing fats and mixturescontaining the same through a suitable sprayer into a closed' '30 the congealing point of the fat with the ob to powder form.

what may be generally characterized as the stearin fats. Some of these fats are natur- Oll may be employed.

The invention consists in spraying the fat alone or mixed with other substances, into a Y chamber the temperature of which is less than the'congealing point ofthe fat. The fat is firstmelted and then forced while hot chamber the temperature of which is suitably regulated according to atmospheric conditions'so' as to keep the same less than ject of preventing coalescence thereof, and as the spray strikes the relatively cool air it 1 will be solidified into fine particles. and fall Y to the bottom of the chamber in the form of t a fine powder.

The invention also has application to the to 'my hand and seal at Indianapolis this 17th production of a baking powder having the active elements thereo bination under the action of the water used in dough making and under atmospheric the'invention is to enable a isolated chemically from one another and protected from com-- g of fat for com- THE SAME 'ro POWDER ap lication of the heat of baking.

Patented Dealt), 19118.

Application filed Ju1 31, 1e17.' Serial No. mares.

forming a baking powder according to process, either one or both of the active elements of the baking powder is intimately mixed with the molten fat and then the mix I ture thoroughly agitated" and whilehot and under such agitation, sprayed into the cooler chamber, whereupon the fat and the element or elements will be" thrown down in a dry .powder with the particles of the active element or elements covered with a fatty coat ing. The completed product is a dry pow-- der with the active element chemically separated and inhibited from combination until the application of the heat used in baking.

The acid element of the baking powder maybe elther in powder or liquid form, and may be either soluble orinsoluble in oil. It may be tartaric acid,'potassium bitartrate, theacid phosphates of calcium and sodium, or lactic acid, or butyric acid. The base may be sodium bicarbonate or other carbonic acid yielding chemicals.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim is:

1. The process which consists in melting'a. fat, mixing thesame while in a molten condition with an active elementof a baking powder, and then spraying the mixtureinto a chamber the temperature of which is lower than the congealin point of the fat. J

j 2. The process w 10h consists in melting a ture and spraying the mixturewhile hot into a chamber the temperature of which is lower than the congealing point ofthe fat.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set day of July, A. D. nineteen himdred and seventee 

